Kusan: City of Wolves Review – A Brutal Hotline Miami-Like That Earns Its Difficulty

Kusan: City of Wolves lands on PS5 as a top-down action game clearly inspired by Hotline Miami — fast, violent, and punishing in equal measure.

The game leans hard into one-hit-kill chaos, asking players to read rooms quickly and execute clean runs through waves of enemies. The pace is relentless, and the difficulty is real — this is not a game that holds your hand or eases you in.

Hotline Miami's shadow looms large over this genre, and Kusan: City of Wolves sits comfortably in that lineage of top-down killers where a single mistake resets everything. That formula has a dedicated fanbase, and games that execute it well tend to find their audience.

If you can stomach the repeated deaths, Kusan: City of Wolves delivers the kind of sharp, high-stakes carnage that fans of the genre are after.